To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Anti-Chinese racism, nationalism and state formation in post-revolutionary Mexico, sβs Political Power and Social Theory, Gerardo Renique. Anti-Chinese racism, nationalism and state formation in post-revolutionary Mexico, sβs. The article analyzes the trajectory of this racial movement from its origins as a social and political movement to its incorporation within the new orthodoxy of the post-revolutionary state.
The article suggests that a reconsideration of race offers a better theoretical understanding of Mexican state formation and the cultural processes through which social identities take form in interaction with the state, its institutions and discourses.
The treatment of race as a political problem also contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms and processes that transform diffuse racial sentiments, perceptions and expectations into militant and politically organized racial movements.
Taking Nicaragua as a case study Gould demonstrates how the myth of mestizaje has served to eliminate indigenous history and culture from both intellectual accounts --including those associated with the Sandinista regimeβand indigenous historical memory Gould, Knight, Along with Gould and Knight, I approach mestizaje as both a generalized strategy of racial and national formation, and as a somewhat idiosyncratic version of the ideology of white supremacy. The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, A History of Race and Nation.
Durham: Duke University Press. For the U. Popularized in the United States in the comparative analysis of Harris M. For reassessment and criticism of this concept see Winant H. In Racial Conditions. Politics, Theory, Comparisons Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
